When swashbucklers of all ages will converge on Tybee Island for the 8th Annual Tybee Island Pirate Festival on Oct. 4-7, 2012, they'll get a pretty fun surprise.

Mötley Crüe lead singer Vince Neil will headline a live concert Oct. 6 at 7 p.m., organizers announced Wednesday afternoon. Best known for his work on legendary Mötley Crüe albums like "Shout at the Devil" and "Girls, Girls, Girls," Neil will perform a variety of Mötley Crüe hits at his Tybee Island Pirate Festival performance.

Since the band’s founding in 1981, Mötley Crüe has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide.

The festivities will kick off with the coronation at the King and Queen at the Buccaneer’s Ball at the Crab Shack on Oct. 4. Other entertainment will include live music by the Jimmy Buffett tribute band A1A, pirate performers, street performers, magicians, puppeteers, weaponry demonstrations and more. Eric and Susan Scites of Faire Wynds Historical Entertainment will demonstrate fire-eating and perform acts of magic throughout the weekend.

Additional highlights for the 2012 Tybee Island Pirate Festival include The Pirate Victory Parade, Scallywags Costume Contest, Little Matey’s Cove, Thieves Market and the new Pirate Pub with live music.

Pirate Festival Weekend Passes are $20 through Aug. 31 and $22 after Aug. 31. Children 12 and under are admitted free.

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I am sick and tired. No. worse. I have gotten to my tethers end over this whole Pirates Day (and the other damned special events) on Tybee. Not all of us are lower middle class skanks that like this kinda crap. It is not fun. It is where all the local lowlife drunks and drug addicts come disguised as a pseudo 17th century ruffian to get wasted with the excuse of Pirates Day celebrations. I am a taxpayer on Tybee, as are all of my neighbors, and the 5 digit property taxes we are paying need to account for something in the way of the peoples voice. The only people that benefit from the Pirates day parade are a few rental companies and their clients, along with the local bars (yes again BARS) that do nothing for the life quality on Tybee. I am not against drinking or eating or having fun, but it is now getting out of hand. I have lived on Tybee for 20 years and live here because it is not New York or Boston or London with its congestion and overwhelming populus. Why are we letting this happen?
I am assuring those who are profiting from this; that is the Pirates Day Association or Tybee Business owners whatever, are going to be hearing from an Attorney before this gets off the ground this year. Hope you guys have deep pockets because it is going to be in court before October. You have been warned.

Well, you might not be a lower middle class skank, but you talk like a lower class skank. You may go back to New York, Boston, London, or wherever you called home before, we have no need for you here. Tybee used to be a wonderful place, devoid of people like you who think they are better than everyone else. Drinking and partying is Tybee Island, always has been, always will be. I wish you well with your endeavour and hope you go broke while doing it. You will never stop any festival from being held on that island. NEVER. Damn Yankees.

A complete waste of Time. Then I drove a float, one Sat morning in the parade....Mostly children and families. These kids ( almost all ) had home made swords and eye patches, and really got in to it. I ( still ) haven't seen any of the pirate movies( Depps) but are pretty sure these kids got their first look at a pirate and it was Depp. AAArrr

It used to be an Island thing, but has got out of hand, (like every thing else ADVERTISED... Bumms, Halloween, St Paddys.. it has become too commercialized ) It went completely to junk last year and if this is the headliner ....there worse now than ever. Not worth the money or time. Where is the Marshall Tucker band or the REAL Buffett. ( all Motley no crew? )Is the pier going to have a better band for FREE again this year ?

When it was all about US I didn't care...But now SOMEBODY is making money I have to ask ??? How much did this cost the Taxpayers of Tybee ? How much Taxes did it generate. What is the loss of revenue from shutting down the major parking lot for 2 weeks? How much in overtime cleaning up? Who pays the TIPD overtime? When it was for us, by us, about US.... I didn't care.

I'm not against the Pirate Festival or any other single event. But, do we have to have some contrived event every frigging weekend? How about more chilling out time. I liked Tybee one hell of a lot more before we got discovered.

Here come the artists with their intense faces, with their need for money and quiet spaces.
They leave New York, they leave L.A.
Here they are - who knows how long they'll stay?

[chorus:]
It's a Boomtown got another Boomtown and it'll boom just as long as boom has room.

Here come the tourists with their blank stares, with their fanny packs - they are penny millionaires.
Something interesting happened here a long time ago.
Now where people used to live their lives the restless come and go.

[chorus]

Nice to meet you, nice to see you in a sheepskin coat made in Korea.
Welcome to the new age, the new century.
Welcome to a town with no real reason to be.

[chorus]

The rich build sensitive houses and pass their s*&% around.
For the rest of us, it's trailers on the outskirts of town. We carry them their coffee, wash their shiny cars, hear all about how lucky we are
to be living in a...
[chorus]

The guy from California moves in and relaxes.
The natives have to move - they cannot pay the taxes.
Santa Fe has had it.
Sedona has, too.
Maybe you'll be lucky - maybe your town will be the new... [chorus]

Paul DeVivo Marketing (Paul DeVivo) The Bars.
Tybee Vacation Rentals may somewhat but most of the low lifes that go to this thing seem to be the people that bring their own beer and stay in the low end motels off I-95 and drive home drunk with their children in the back of the truck.